"The main challenge is to offer new solutions to old problems"

If we talk about aid related to government agencies, the truth is that the desire to help is missing. No shortage of good words, councils and readiness needs of an entrepreneur, with the exception of the economic. Grant application processes are long and tedious, and usually always lack meet any requirement. As for banks and savings banks, there is no more than read the press to imagine that they are not in a position to help small businesses which, in its discretion, do not offer them many guarantees of repayment of the borrowed capital. Ultimately, it is necessary to use own resources (if he is available) or to family and friends to support you, as well as large doses of imagination and auto-motivación.

In my particular circumstances - I am afraid are similar to the many others-, the difficulties of finding funding, joins the fact that the sector of automation is currently low hours due to the poor state of the industry. The majority of companies have been drastically reduced the number of orders, receiving, and by extension their investments, waiting to see where the economy is heading. This fact undoubtedly slows the possibilities of development of a new activity in the sector. In my case, I try to get there where others can't, do not want, offering services and innovative products that enable businesses become more competitive, lower their costs of production, or automate processes where previously not so raised.

It has been proven that one of the fastest paths to the profitability of an industrial process automation. It is a necessary tool to make our industry more competitive with today's markets and the emerging. There is more to do in various media advertising Morocco is doing to attract industry to its new industrial poles. I firmly believe that in our sector, is the time to take a step forward and carry out reforms and investments necessary to maintain our competitiveness.

Certainly in the automotive industry and the companies related to it which has been for years the biggest bets by automating processes. This has resulted in a dramatic growth in quantity and quality of production. However, there are other sectors were not left behind. The pharmaceutical and food industries in that order have implemented complex devices of packaging, packaging and quality control that allowed often keep their businesses up and running in difficult times like these. With the support and support of automation companies, have clearly seen the opportunity that new technologies offer, betting on automating processes that were little profitable or with a low added value.

In the industrial sector that is that I know, my opinion is that the artificial robot-visión binomial is opening up to the market very extensive possibilities of development, by bringing together the countless advantages of both technologies. I believe that apart from new developments to come, the combination of both can be solved a myriad of production problems or improvements thereof, which to date had not been seriously. As I said before, now is the time of bet.

No doubt most popular robots are those that offer more and better benefits at a cost of more content. If we adhere to the injection of thermoplastics sector, perhaps the Cartesian robots are still the most sought after by the own inertia of the sector, but gradually be introduced also anthropomorphic robots in these processes. Companies like Stäubli Española, with which we collaborate often, no doubt provide a new vision of the automation that renewed expectations and offers new solutions to old problems.

I just have just returned from Japan and I have seen for myself that without a doubt the automation of industrial processes in Europe is an activity that has still a long way to go. In Japan were precursors in the automation of processes lead us for many years. Indeed, some current European manufacturers renowned have drunk out of its waters for decades, incorporating its technology and making it itself. Quality, simplicity and effectiveness are its maxims, developing very effective devices with cost content. Precisely, I have the pleasure of representing in Robotplus, exclusively for Spain, some of these technological advances.

In my opinion the main challenge is, as I said before, offer new solutions to old problems. No longer enough to put a robot on a machine and give the button, today that makes it any company in any country. It must be created the robot that really brings the maximum advantage and competitiveness to that particular process. You have to invent it or adapt it to the maximum so that the process is more cost-effective than the neighbor from the North or South, and this is applicable from SMEs to multinational must defend and demonstrate the profitability of its local factory.

This crisis has been without a doubt a blow that is costing us replace us all Europeans, and even more if possible to the Spaniards, because our model of economic growth in recent years. I am of the opinion that every crisis are always obtained positive readings, and one of them is that every change hurts but strengthens. The Spanish economy is past the worst ordeal of its recent past, but is perhaps also an opportunity to make things better, change old ways and customs by new visions and models that make us more competitive than our neighbors.

Finally, I would like to paraphrase José Saramago who explains it much better than me:

"Is not true." The journey does not stop ever. Only travelers end up. And even these can last in memory, in memory, in stories. (….) We must return to the steps already dice, to repeat them and to chart new paths to their side. We must begin the journey back. Always. The traveller returns to the path. (From the book 'Journey to Portugal').